Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 0.3–1 cm, strigillose and with yellow or white, sessile glands;

blade ovate to obovate, unlobed, 2–4 cm, base truncate, margins shallowly toothed, sometimes undulate, apex rounded, surfaces with yellow, sessile glands abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

erect, 6–15-flowered racemes, 1.5–5 cm, axis glandular, flowers evenly spaced.

jointed, 2–5 mm, glandular;

bracts narrowly lanceolate, 2–3.5 mm, glandular.

hypanthium reddish, turbinate, 2–5 mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular;

sepals not overlapping, spreading, reddish, triangular to broadly deltate-ovate, 2–3 mm;

petals widely separated, erect, reddish brown, oblong to oblong-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2 mm;

nectary disc prominent, reddish to reddish brown, 5-angled, completely covering top of ovary;

stamens nearly as long as petals;

filaments linear, 2 mm, glabrous;

anthers white, oval, 0.1 mm, apex with small cuplike depression;

ovary sparsely sessile-glandular;

styles connate 1/2 their lengths, 1 mm,glabrous.

palatable, red, globose, 5–6 mm, glabrous.

= 16.